The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-11-01


CHARLES DICKENS, JR., is soon to make al
| tour in this country to give readings from the
works Of his illus rious father. lie will be
heard 10y many who listened with delight to,
the readings OF The great Dickens, whose.
American tour was made in the winter OF
1851 aad 3.
a CRITIC IN Lippincott's Magazine says that
no such character as Mr.. Pecksniff win be-
found in real life. Dickens anticipated this
critic when he wrote: "All the Pecksnif
fanily upon earth are quite agreed, believe,
that Mr.. Pecksnitf is an eXaggeration."
II Is ANNOUNCED that Secretary of State
Bayard is soon to weda Miss Sophia Dallas
Markoe, who is now an attache OF the state de-.
partment. She is the daughter of the late Frank
Markoe, who was the first secretary of tho
Smithsonian institute, and whose southern
sympathies, during the war, caused him to lose
his position.
CANON WELDON RECENTLY made a temper
ance address in Dublin, in which he denounc.
ed the Highland festival given in honor of the
presence OF the queen as a most revolving
scene OF drunkenness and debauchery, lead by
the sons and sons-in-law Of her highness. The
canon forgets that the royal boys are paid to
do nothing bat have good time
OMAHA WILL VIGOROUSLY press its claims
before the republican national committee as
the proper place to hold the next national con.
Yention. John Sherman and Governor For
aker have both expressed themselves as favor
ing it. II would be much better to select some
place on Salt river, so that the g. o. D. will not
have far to so in looking for the result OF it's
work.
EX-GovERNoR HoADLEY, of Ohio, is quoted
by the Chicago Times as having said that there
Is but little to criticize in Cleveand's admin;
istration, and that the president has been true
to his duty in every instance He thinks that
Cleveland will certainly be renominated, and
that Blaine will be the republican nominee
again, if he wants to be. He thinks Sherman
has no chance at all, and that if Blaine WON'T
! accept denomination that Allison will be the
man.
DR. LEONARD, the Ohio prohibition leader,
is taking conspicuous part in the state CAM
| paign of Ohio, and is arraigning the republic
can party and its methods, declaring
that i'll 1872 it declared for free whisky,
and beer. While the doctors stand is
not directly for the democrats, yet his;
position viii materially assist in the election Of
democrats to the general assembly, in that tho
detection from the republican vote by prohi-;
bitionsts will be decidedly greater than from
| the democratic ranks. Luck to the doctor.
| Mr.. PowDERLY, MASTER workman of the
Knights of Labor, in public speech, in Cleve-,
| land, i'll referring to the prohibition question
| said: cit is not my desire to interfere with
mans right to drink whenever and wherever
he desires, so long as by the exercise of that,
| right he does not infringe upon any rights of
| mine. am not prohibitionist would not
| legisate against any mans appetite. I am,
| however, to this extent prohibitionist, that L
always have and always will prohibit any in
toxicating liquor from being poured into my,
! system"
Ex-senator THURMAN, of Ohio, "the no.
| blest Roman of them ALL" announced in a.
| public address in his state last Saturday, that
the effort would probably be his last in the
political arena in which he has served so long
and faithfully. Thus, at the ripe old age of
| seventy-four years, he takes his leave from the
public with the respect and goodwill of his
| political adversaries and the love and yenera-
| ton of his partsans. BE it ever to his credit,
| that his last public address, if, indeed, loving
| people allow this to be his last, was in defense
| of the reunion of the sections and in denuncia-
ton of the appeal to sectional passion and the
men who are occupied in rekindling sectional
| strife. He could not have closed his useful
! public career more laudably than by his ear
| nest and eloquent admonition to his people to
"stand by the great principles that Thomas
| Jefferson laid down for the American people,
| that Andrew Jackson enforced, and that have
made this country one of the greatest and
| freest and most lovable countries upon which
| the sun of God shines today